Contrasting preferences of N and P substituted heteroaromatics towards metal binding: probing the regioselectivity of Li+ and Mg2+ binding to (CH)(6-m-n)N(m)P(n).

High level ab initio and hybrid DFT methods have been employed to investigate the interactions of metal ions (Li(+) and Mg(2+)) with N and P substituted six membered heteroaromatics (CH)(6-m-n)N(m)P(n). The binding energy (BE) of metal ions with the N and P substituted heteroaromatics has been computed at the CCSD(T)/cc-pVTZ//MP2/cc-pVTZ level with counterpoise correction. In the present study we systematically examined the preferential modes of binding of metal ions to the heteroaromatics. N-Substituted heteroaromatics show a strong preference for cation-σ mode of binding whereas the P-substituted heteroaromatics prefer cation-π mode of binding with the metal ions. Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) using the DFT-SAPT scheme has been carried out to analyse the contribution of various energy components to the BE. The results illustrate that for the cation-π complexes, the contribution of the induction term is more whereas in the case of cation-σ there is a competition between induction and electrostatic terms in the interaction energy.

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